Honduran president's brother sentenced to life in prison in U.S. for drug trafficking

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NEW YORK (Reuters) -Tony Hernandez, a former Honduran congressman and brother of the sitting president, was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years for drug trafficking by a U.S. judge on Tuesday.

Hernandez, 42, was convicted on the drug charges and related weapons charges in October 2019. Hernandez will also be forced to pay $138.5 million in forfeiture, which prosecutors in their sentencing memo here wrote was "blood money" from drug trafficking.

“This is state-sponsored drug trafficking and this is exactly the type of conduct the government should be targeting, because of the impact it has on Honduras,” U.S. prosecutor Matthew Laroche said. “Honduras is one of the principal drug transhipment places in the world and one of the most violent places in the world.”

Too bad they couldn't nail his brother.
 
Good to see .Not sure What are government or the U.N. can do to stop the drug trafficking in these foreign governments. For the record I cannot be judgmental on this, my cousin got 75 years for the same crime.
 
Maybe if the Republic of Honduras will agree to abandon the cocaine business, America can help them switch to being our biggest suppliers of grass?

State after state is legalizing cannabis , and we are in need of farms to grow our stash and Honduras is ideally located.
 

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